Jian Xu
Software Engineer at Meta
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJian Xu is a software engineer with 14 years of systems and kernel-level experience, currently working on MTIA software at Meta after a long tenure at Google where he optimized ML platform performance for GPU/TPU and drove ML hardware/software co-design. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering from UC San Diego, where he co-created NOVA, a widely cited persistent-memory file system that delivered dramatic throughput and consistency gains and is available as open source. Jian’s background spans Linux kernel driver development (notably USB3.0 xHCI contributions at AMD) to large-scale storage and NVMM research, giving him rare depth across hardware, firmware, and cloud-scale software. Based in Sunnyvale, he combines research-grade systems design with production optimization expertise, and has repeatedly translated prototype ideas into measurable performance wins in industry settings.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San Diegohigh schoolMaster Electronic Engineering, Master Electronic Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Github Skills (80)
python10
deep-learning10
san10
linux10
ml10
diego10
neural-network10
byte10
data-science10
volatile10
tensorflow10
dax10
non-volatile10
filesystem10
porting10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Andiry/pmfs-new
Feb 2015 - Aug 2020
Contributions:71 commits, 61 pushes, 4 branches in 5 years 6 months
Andiry/nova
Feb 2015 - Jul 2018
Contributions:1999 commits, 1 PR, 763 pushes in 3 years 5 months
structuredvolatilememoriesfilesystemlog-structured
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